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title: The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399 — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: This is the big quiz for the last hundred lessons, so it gathers the main ideas once more: counting legs,
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# The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399

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Lesson 400 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/0/) — This is the big quiz for the last hundred lessons, so it gathers the main ideas once more: counting legs, toes, teeth and blowholes, the animals of Ukraine and China, sleep, poisonous plants and cartoons put right.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/1/) — Counting is a superpower in biology.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/2/) — Six legs means an insect, eight means a spider or a tick.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/3/) — Eighteen toes means a real cat, not a cartoon one.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/4/) — Two blowholes means a baleen whale, one means a toothed whale.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/6/) — And some rules keep you safe for life: never eat a wild berry, leaf or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows says it is safe, and always tell a grown-up if a friend has.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/7/) — An owl has four toes on each foot, and one outer toe can swing forward or back, so it can grip with two in front and two behind; owls cannot move their eyes in their sockets, so they turn their heads instead.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/8/) — All insects have six legs and three body parts, so a beetle, an ant and a bee have eighteen legs together; a spider has eight legs, so it is not an insect.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/9/) — The sperm whale and the orca have teeth, while the blue whale and the humpback have baleen plates for straining small food from the water; baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/10/) — A full set of grown-up teeth is 32 and a full set of baby teeth is 20; the last four grown-up teeth, the wisdom teeth, come in late, and some people never get them.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/11/) — The longest bone in the body is the thigh bone, or femur, about a quarter of your height, and the smallest bone is in your ear and is smaller than a grain of rice.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/12/) — The safe rule for the wild is never to eat any berry, leaf or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows says it is safe; many poisonous plants look tasty, many poisonous mushrooms look plain, and silver spoon or colour tests are myths.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/13/) — The white stork nests on poles and chimneys in Ukrainian villages, builds huge stick nests it uses year after year, flies to Africa for the winter and returns in spring; many Ukrainians see it as a sign of good luck and home.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/14/) — The silkworm, a caterpillar that eats mulberry leaves, spins silk for its cocoon; people in China have kept silkworms for thousands of years, and the domestic silk moth can no longer live in the wild.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/15/) — A silkworm has six true, pointed legs at the front, like every insect, and ten soft stumpy legs further back.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/16/) — Gigantopithecus was a giant ape from southern China known mostly from teeth, which are very hard and last longer than other bones, first found sold as dragon teeth in medicine shops; caves later gave many more, but no full skeleton has been found, so nobody knows its exact height.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/17/) — A dolphin sleeps with half its brain at a time and keeps coming up to breathe, with one eye open controlled by the awake half; ducks at the edge of a sleeping row can do the same.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/18/) — A real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all, while cartoon cats like Tom are often drawn with four fingers; real cats cannot talk, wear clothes or bounce back from being flattened.

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